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...York researcher believes that the power to regenerate may be provided artificially. Dr. Robert Becker, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the State University of New York's Upstate Medical Center and a medical investigator at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Syracuse, has already succeeded in stimulating regeneration in laboratory animals and has begun trying to apply his technique to humans. Becker has started a series of tests aimed at producing bone growth in patients with recalcitrant, or non-healing, fractures. His work could lead to new and faster ways to heal broken bones, and may someday even...
...Becker's work in tissue regeneration dates back to 1958, when he and his colleagues began experiments to determine whether electrical stimulation could trigger bone and other tissue growth in animals. Earlier research had already established that the chances of regeneration in a species depend upon the proportion of nerve tissue in the area of regeneration. Becker points out that man, with roughly 70% of his total nerve mass concentrated in his brain, cannot regenerate. Salamanders, with only half the mass of their nerve tissue in their brains and the remainder spread throughout their bodies, can grow new tails...
There were several reasons for the calm mood prevalent among Drinan supporters. First, their candidate had been picked by the polls to win the Fourth Congressional District by a comfortable margin. The Becker Research Corporation, which conducts surveys for the Boston Globe, gave Drinan a 21-point lead as of September 23. One week later, the research group released the results of another poll which showed Drinan leading by ten points. Obviously Linsky, a 31-year-old liberal Republican who had served in the State House of Representatives for six years, was gaining, but Drinan's followers were convinced that...
...most thorough polls were taken for the Boston Globe by Becker Research Corp. of Boston, using sophisticated but by no means risk-free telephone polling. Becker's first poll in January showed Edmund Muskie receiving 65% of the Democratic vote, a figure that soon became a target in election stories and drew cries from the Muskie camp that their candidate was running against a phantom, i.e., the numbers...
What was to have been the final poll was taken in late February and showed a drastic change. There had been a massive erosion of Muskie strength to 49%, and a major growth in George McGovern strength of 13 points to 31%. Even as Becker's pollsters made their second round of 435 sampling calls, Muskie was mounting a flatbed truck in the campaign's single dramatic moment to denounce, in tears, Manchester Publisher William Loeb. Another "final" poll was ordered by the Globe; it showed Muskie strength off still more to 42%, McGovern...